Subtle Issues of Right and Wrong During the late 80s Rebellion

[OBW]

Originally Posted by RollingStone

I have noticed that some people like to have a plan and regimen and feel safe with that. They like to have the same experience over and over, hence the success of Mcdonalds. They really get anxiety if they are in a situation to try something new. I think they think within Oh I might not like that, I don't know. I would be really sad if my only food was Mcdonalds.

When I was a boy I had a lesson about God from an older man who I was helping him plant tree seedlings. He had gotten a few hundred tree seedlings and we were planting them in a big field on a hill. He was digging the holes and I was putting the seedlings in the hole and covering them up stepping on the dirt to complete the job. I was thinking the old man wasn't digging the holes in the right places as I thought they should be evenly spaced and in rows and even suggested that he should be doing that which he responded that man plants things in rows and that God does things in random and that he wanted the little seedlings to grow up and look like God had done the planting. That was about 40 yrs. ago and when i drive by that area I think it would look really silly now if all the trees were evenly spaced in rows as I was thinking they should be.

When I went to share with others with a method, people could see i was following a method but if I wasn't following a method then people could see something else and He gets the Glory not the method.

Not to take away from what the older man taught you, but simply doing something in a way that you think looks more like God did it is no better than doing in a regimented and orderly way. Either can be my attempt to be God and either can be my labor according to what I have been charged to do by God. Assuming that everything must be orderly, or that it must be random (or a messy kitchen) is to presume. Not saying that either is good or bad. It is not what is done, or even how it is done. It is from what source it is done no matter which way it is done.